Title etched above image., Date and place of publication from item., Below image: "Get thee Glass Eyes, and like a Scurvy Poitician, seem to see the things thou dost not". Vide Shakespear's Lear., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Pen and pencil drawings verso.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany.14.1793. by J. Aitken No.14 [4 reversed] Castle Street
Subject (Name):
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Great Britain, Politics and government, Politicians, Mentally ill persons, and Daggers & swords
William Pitt, in a dramatic pose, reaches up with his right hand for a sword presented to him by three cherubs encouraging him to defend King and country. With his other hand he indicates a volume inscribed, "Locke on the human understanding" on the table behind him. Above the table hangs a portrait of Lord Chatham. Members and supporters of the North-Fox coalition look on through an open window, gathered under a flag labeled "The Harmonic Society."
Description:
Title from item., Under title: "Third sketch"., and Mounted to 41 x 29 cm.
Publisher:
Published Feby. 18, 1784, as the act directs by S. Fores No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806., Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816., and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Tables, Daggers & swords, and Clothing & dress